Bioloid Climbs Walls The Old Fashioned Way

Writing by Evan Ackerman on Tuesday, 19 of January , 2010 at 3:09 am

I’ll see all those fancy wall climbing robots we posted about earlier today, and raise you a humanoid robot that climbs walls with its hands and feet, just like you and I would if we weren’t so lazy and out of shape. Programmed by Marko Wickrath, the robot isn’t just demonstrating a remarkable amount of coordinated and reproducible agility, it’s actually deciding autonomously where to place each hand and foot based on an image of the wall from an external camera and what the robot knows about its own capabilities.

The end goal, of course, is to move all of the sensing and computation on board the robot: it’ll walk up to the wall, examine hand and footholds, calculate an optimum route, and start climbing. Why am I smelling a new Robogames event here…

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Comment by tefman

Made Tuesday, 19 of January , 2010 at 12:20 pm

really love the servo noise/beat. Needs to be made into some drum -n- bass.
or just vj’ed live….

Comment by FelipeChoque

Made Thursday, 21 of January , 2010 at 1:49 pm

Hey! i drew a Sexy Robot inspired by this article =)

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